Theatre shows Film and Television

For acting, performance and coaching for actors - please contact Roddy

For directing and designing physical and visual theatre, please contact Alice

Examples of our work:


	Their brand of humour relies on understatement, deadpan delivery and the throwaway line. (The Guardian)
Alice's Diner - Improvisational theatre company seen at the Bush, The Globe, The National, Europe and the USA throughout the 1990 s. Roddy & Alice were founder members.

Their brand of humour relies on understatement, deadpan delivery and the throwaway line. (The Guardian)

Improvisational theatre company seen at the Bush, The Globe, The National, Europe and the USA throughout the 1990 s. Roddy & Alice were founder members.

Theatre Machine

It s all wonderfully unpredictable, and well worth the risk. (Time Out)

The first British Theatre of improvisation. Roddy was a founder member.

The Ghost Downstairs

Alice Purcell s misty, musty grey setting prods and props the imagination, dismantling from parlour to street scene to railway carriage; the firework display using just torches is stunning. (The Guardian)

Leicester Haymarket. Designed by Alice Purcell

A postmodernist masterpiece &Overall there is a faultless eloquence that evokes in us the pity and terror of ancient sacred drama. (The Scotsman)

Paper Walls

A piece that redefines the term box set . Total theatre in miniature, it gives Robert Lepage s spinning cube for The Dream Play a run for its money, using a simple garden shed and some household tools. (The Glasgow Herald )

Directed and designed by Alice Purcell with Alice Power

Get off My Foot

&a white-box heaven that has the serenity of a mime work. A ventriloquist s dummy glides like a puppet from the Eastern European school before bathetically flapping its arms. (The Times)

Nottingham Playhouse. Designed by Alice Purcell

Opera North

The Marriage of Figaro. Designed by Alice Purcell

David Glass Mime Ensemble

Design for the Ensemble by Alice Purcell

Film

Roddy has worked with:

Anthony Hopkins	Glen Close	John Gielgud
Meryl Streep	Clint Eastwood	Maurice Chevalier
Eva Gabor	Phil Harris	Nancy Kulp
Debra Winger	John Wood	Ian McKellen

Filmography

1993	Arnold Dopliss	in Shadowlands
1990	Thomson	in White Hunter, Black Heart
1989	Dr. Gatty	in How to get ahead in advertising
1988	George Stubbs	in Tumbledown
1985	The Committee Chairman	in Plenty
1984	Olivestone	in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1970	Butler, Edgar	in The Aristocats
1966	Tristram	in Doctor in Clover
1966	Hector	in The Party's Over

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